Performance-Based Planning Resources

To help states, Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and transit providers implement the requirements for national performance measures in areas such as safety, infrastructure condition, congestion, system reliability, emissions, and freight movement to comply with the Final Rule on Metropolitan and Statewide and Non-Metropolitan Planning, FTA and FHWA have developed a variety of training resources. Learn more about performance-based planning for transit.

Peer Exchanges

During 2016 and 2017, FTA’s Office of Planning held a series of Performance Based Planning Peer Exchange Roundtables throughout the country to improve technical capacity of transit providers and MPOs in implementing performance based planning, with a focus on the needs of small and medium-sized agencies and MPOs. The well-attended roundtables were held in: Washington, DC; Albany, NY; Charlotte, NC; Salt Lake City, UT; Fort Worth, TX; Kansas City, MO; Seattle, WA; Baltimore, MD; Reno, NV; Chicago, IL and Atlanta, GA and provided participants with an opportunity to voice concerns, share successes, and develop networks with similar-sized agencies to continue sharing best practices.

Training Courses and Webinars

FTA, in partnership with the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) and the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO), hosted a Performance-Based Planning Roundtable Webinar on June 20, 2017 and November 29, 2017. The webinar explored legislative requirements for performance-based planning and featured speakers from MPOs, transit agencies, and State DOTs working to develop transit asset management plans and set state of good repair performance targets.

Transportation Performance Management (TPM) for Safety –A two-day course that explains the safety performance measures and noteworthy practices for States to adopt to comply with the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) and Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act requirements.

MAP-21 Transportation Performance Management Overview (Including FAST Act Updates) - An overview of the Transportation Performance Management (TPM) provisions of MAP-21 and FAST Act, describes the responsibilities that agencies at several levels have in delivering these requirements, highlights the importance of data in meeting the performance management provisions and captures noteworthy practices in use today that may help agencies get started on meeting these requirements.

Resources

FTA and FHWA are establishing the performance management framework introduced by MAP-21 and continued by the FAST Act through a series of six rules. Each of these rules contains requirements and deadlines that transit providers, MPOs, and State DOTs are required to meet:

FTA published a Final Rule on Statewide and Nonmetropolitan Transportation Planning and Metropolitan Transportation Planning to require a performance-based approach to planning (May 2016)

FTA published a Final Final Rule on Transit Asset Management to establish performance measures to assess state of good repair of transit agency vehicles and facilities and equipment (September 2016)